. BREEN PREDICTS DEFEAT
OF SLAVE LAW AND
DEFEAT OF LABOR FOES
(Continued From Pago 1)
reasonable level.. Price-Axing mo
nopolies must be crushed and in
flation must be halted before the
people of this country are robbed
of all their hard-earned savings.
“Second, we insist on sound
measures to maintain full, year
'round employment at wages com
mensurate with decent American
standards of living.
“Third, we call for enactment
cf a broad housing program which
will encourage and speed up the
construction of millions of new
and comfortable homes for the
American people.
“Fourth, we must increaae the
present minimum wage. Under the
present law, the standard is only
40 cents an, hour for a 40-hour
week. How can any wage-earner
support a family on $16 a week
at present prices? This situa
tion is an economic Might upon
our nation and cries aloud for
correction, but the enemies of la
bor refuse to listen to reason.
rum, ana nnany, u we n»pc
for a better future for ourselves
and our children, we must'
strength and improve our social (
security laws so that no worker'
can be cast on the scrap heap in
old are and be forced to take a
pauper’s dole. The new Social
Security program, which the
American Federation of Latbor t
urges. calls for the inclusion of
a sound system of health insur
ance, a forward step which is es
sential not only to the well-beinr
of individuals but to our country’s
future security.
"These things, are worth fight
ing for. Certainly they are worth
voting for!”
While urging all trade union
members to join in the AFL’s
battle against the usurpation of
labor's rights, Mr. Green empha
aired the need for self-discipline
on the part of labor in the con
duct of its fight. He said:
“The task and responsibility of
organised labor in the months |
ahead will not be to arouse the
spirit of retaliation among the
membership, but to keep the spon
taneous surge of that spirit with-;
COHEN SCHEME TO USE DPi
AT QUODDY EXPOSED AS
SLAVE LABOR PROPOSAL
(Continued From Page 1)
and guided by the U. S. Office
of Education, wherein not less
than 60 per cent of the main
hours in production will be de
I voted to the training of workers.
3. That all displaced persons
who participate in the training
plan or employment be regular
immigrants who will do so of their
own choice without servitude or
prior agreements of any kind and
with the full freedom and op
portunities accorded any other
immigrant.
4. That all persons working
on production processes shall be
paid at the local prevailing rates
of pay applicable for the work
performed without deductions or
other charges, except as provided
for by law.
BRITISH UNION CONGRE8S
CABLES LABOR MESSAGE
Neww York City—The Jewish
Labor Committee announced the
receipt of the following Labor
Day message from Vincent Tew
son, General Secretary of the
British Trades Union Congress:
"On the eve of our annual
Trades Union Congress I send
greetings ttf American workers
celebrating their national holi
day on the day our Congress
meets.
"British trade unionists are
fully aware of the difficulties be
setting American unions and or
ganised labor under the repres
sive legislation recently enacted
and reciprocate the fraternal
goodwill shown by American la
bor in the present period of eco
nomic difficulty affecting our own
labor movement. No controversial
problem must be allowed to un
dermine that goodwill existing
between the trade unionists of
America and Britain.”
in disciplined bounds. For our
own good and the welfare of our
country, we must keep production
going at full blast and the wheels
of industry moving without seri
ous interruption. We must fight
our enemies, not with ill-consid
ered strikes, but with ballots, in
the peaceful, democratic, and
American way.”
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LOYALTY IS BEGUN BY
CIVIL SERVICE HOARD
tober l, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation will be asked to
make an investigation of any “de
rogatory” information brought to
light from examination of Alas
of the FBI, Civil Service Com
mission, military and naval intel
ligence, House Committee on Un
American Activities, local, state,
and city police, and the records
of any other Government investi
i festive or intelligence agency.
' The key organization in the
loyalty program' is the IS-man
review board set up by the Civil
Service Commission. It is
charged with the responsibility of
establishing principles and policies
to implement the program, of ad- j
vising the various agencies on
loyalty problems, and of consider* j
ing appeals made by accused em
ployes and the agencies employ
ing them. •
These employes will be exempt
ed from the loyalty probes:
Persons not paid from Federal
funds but who are in industries
controlled and operated by the
Government:
Persons on furlough through re
ductions in force, military leave,
or any other reason, unless they
return to active doty;
Those serving under contract,
unless the contract shall specifi
cally require it, and
Persons serving under tempor
ary, seasonal or intermittent ap
pointment not. to exceed 90 days,
BULLETIN NO. FIVE ON
TIFT-HJUITIEY LAW
(Continued Front Pare 1)
order must be obeyed under pen
alty for contempt of court, which
may involve fine and imprison
ment
However, onions (and for that
matter, employers too) cannot
take refuge in the knowledge that
an unfair practice can be engaged
in without fear of adverse remedy
or punishment until after the case
has been carried to the Circuit
Court. This was possible for em
ployers under the old act, bat
it is not now, because the board,
as has been expTained above, is
empowered to go into the cougs
for an injunction even before It
decides whether an unfair prac
tice has been committed.
In addition, the board mar re
quire a union to reimburse an em
ploye for any damages, such as
loss of pay, suffered by that em
ploye by reason of the fact that
the union has engaged in an un
fair practice. Such a situation
would ordinarily arise where a
union has canned the discharge of
an employe under a union security
agreement which was found to be
unlawful under the, act. In such
a case, either the union alone or
both the union and the employer
might be required to pay the em
ploye for any loss of pay suffered
by reason of such discharge.
S. Loos of Rights By Unions and
Individual Employes
Failure to comply with certain
sections of the act involve as a
penalty the loss or forfeiture of
various rights under the act.
These situations are as follows:
1.. Failure of a union to file
financial state menu, annual re*
port* and anti-communist affida
vit* required under Section 0, re
sult that union losing whatever
protection* and benefiU and pro
cedures the act might otherwise
give. Thus, a union failing to
file these papers cannot file a
petition for representation or be
certified, cannot file charges, can
not enter into or enforce a union
shop contract, and, if a craft un
ion, cgpnot avail itself of the ad
ditional protections given to craft
unions under the act. This has
been more fully described in the
last section of Bulletin No. 3. It
should be remembered, however,
that failure to file does not de
prive sny individual or union
member of righU under the act,
and that individual* can file
charges and obtain protection
against unfair employer practice*
2. Employes lose their sUtus
as employes under the act if they
engage in a strike during the 60
day “cooling-off” period provided
for under the 60-day notice pro
vision of the act. As discussed
in Bulletin No. 1, the act requires
unions to give a 60-day notice
prior to the expiration of a con
tract if the union desires to modi
fy or terminate it, and during this
period the union is pohibited from
engaging in a strike. The penalty
for engaging in a strike during
BACK WAGE CLAIMS STATUS
CLARIFIED BY LABOR DEPT
Washington, D. C. — The De
partment of Labor issaed a clari
fication concerning the effect of
I the two-year Federal statute of
limitations provision of the Por
tal-to-Portal Act upon claims for
> back wages arising under the
Fair Labor Standsrsd Act.
{ According to the announcement,
permissible claims under the Por
tal-to-Portal Act which arose be
for May 14, 1847. shall be gov
erned by the prevailing state stat
ute of limitations, provided suit
is started on or before September
If. Suits filed after that date
will be governed by the shorter
of either the state statute or the
act’s two-year statute of limita
tions.
AH employe claims arising on
or after May 14, 1947( are gov
emed by the new two-year Fed
eral statute of limitations, the
statement said. State statutes,
whether longer or shorter than
the Federal limitation period,
have no bearing on such claims,
according to the Labor Depart
ment.
NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE
PRAISES TRADE UNIONS
New York City — The Nation*)
Urban League, an organisation
working in behalf of Negro citi*
sene, extended greetings to the
American Federation of Labor
on the occasion of Labor Day.
fn « letter to AFL President
William Green, Lester B. Granger,
Executive Secretary of the League,
»x Dressed appreciation of AFL
'eader* for assistance they ren
dered the League and paid trib
ute to the tremendous achievement
«nd continuing effort of organised
Tabor fn their work to eliminate
racial discrimmaton.
Citing the difficulties encount
ered by the Negro in the housing
crisis and on the general economic
front, Jfr. Granger said:
“We have always considered
democratic trade anions ar strong
allies in our work to eliminate
discrimination and barriers to
equal opportunity for Negroes.”
that period (aside rfom a lawsuit
for breach of contract if the
strike constitutes a breach) is
that the employes involved in the
strike lose their status as em
ployer, and the union is subject
to a temporary injunction obtained
by the hoard, as in the case of
any unfair Tabor practice by a un
ion. Loss of status by an employe
means that he cannot obtain board
protection against employer un
fair Tabor practices and would not
be entitled to reinstatement if the
strike war caused by any unfair
labor practices of the employer.
AH. REVEALS SMEAR
TACTICS JUTO PROTESTS
ATTACK OH PAOWAY
(Continued From Page 1)
after a series of slurs upon labor
by McCann and his persistent at
tempts to browbeat AFL wit
nesses at the hearing. When Mr.
Padway rose to pretest the shame
ful tactics. McCann suddenly
turned upon him, seised him by
the throat and pushed him over
a chair, breaking his glaase*
Upon learning of the incident,
AFL President William Green, de- I
manded the immediate removal of
McCann aa counsel for the Con
gressional committee, la a tel-1
egram to Representative Carroll
D. Kearns, Chairman of the com
mittee, and a letter to Speaker I
Joseph Martin of the House of
Representatives, Mr. Green said j
McCann had disqualified himself)
for further service by hia shock
ing and disgraceful” action.
Chairman Kearns )ook no forth-1
right action in regard to the de- j
spicabie action by one of Ms staff;
He apologised to Mr. Padway, but
at the «ane time told the press
that McCann was "laboring under
a great attain.”
The Padway incident higMight
ed the disgraceful tactics em
ployed by the Congressional com
mittee in connection with the tes
timony of three AFL vice-presi
dents, William C. Doherty, Wil
liam C. Birthright, and Felix H.
Knight.
Mr. Doherty, speaking for the
group, charged that Representa
tive Kearns was guilty of mis
representation of the facts as re
ported in- press accounts of the
inquiry.
Chairman Kearns, obviously out
to “get” anions, released a state
ment charging that the three AFL
leaders "were trying to get out
of testifying.”
“I am perturbed,” Mr. Kearns
was quoted as saying, “over the
number ef people trying to get
out of testifying.” He went on to
infer that the Federal Bureau of
Investigation might be called (a
| to locate witnesses. *
I Mr, Dohertjr said what the pa*
oers did not know, since the com*
mi ttee carefully withheld its re
lease, is the following set of
facts:
1, The three AFL leaders had
no knowledge that their testi
mony was desired at the hearing
until the day before Kearns re
leased nis statement, when they
suddenly received subpoenas in
Washington.
2. Mr. Doherty, acting for
the three men, requested a brief
postponement of the bearings due
to the pressure of theiij regular
business. This request was re
layed to Mr. Kearns by telegram
from the staff of the House Com
mittee on Labor and Education in
Washington.
7. Despite the offer of “full
co-operation” by the AFL spokes-j
men, McCann, committee counsel,
replied by wire stating “the rp-1
quest of W. C. Doherty is denied
by order of Chairman Kearns.”
In the course of the hearing
Mr. Dorherty was subjected to
another kind of insulting treat
ment at the hands of Mr. Mc
Cann.
During: hi* examination bf Mc
Cann, Mr. Doherty raised an ob
jection to the apparent bias os
the questioner. McCann sneered
and said:
“Here come* a man, wfo Asa
years ago was a letter carrier,
pretending to tali a Congression
al committee hew to run its af
fairs—a man with more brains
in his feet than he has in his
head.”
The audience at the hearing ap
plauded when Mr. Doherty do
manded an apology to himaelf and
!‘*to every- httr carrier in the
United State* postal service.”
ANOTHER NLRB AIDE QUITS
_ Buffalo, N. Y.—Francis JL Hel
gesen, Regional National Labor
Relations Board attorney, resigned
because, he said, he could not
“conscientiously ’ administer the
Taft-Hartley Act,”
His resignation follow* that of
regional directors at Minneapolis
and Cincinnati and the regional
attorney in New York) City since
the new law was passed.
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